Plane dismantled because of impatient passenger
Hundreds of passengers were held up when a plane had to be dismantled after a woman dropped her phone down an air vent.
Staff wouldn't let the plane take off with the electronic device, which was switched on, lost inside the aircraft.
Witnesses said that a woman on a flight to Murcia in Spain stood up after landing and got her phone out without being instructed it was safe to do so. She then lost her grip and havoc unfolded as staff realised it had fallen into the workings of the plane.
Passengers waiting to fly back to Newcastle had to wait a gruelling three hours while engineers took the plane apart searching for the phone. We'd imagine the woman's reception at Murcia airport was more than a little frosty...
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